In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress or to stimulate the male sex urge.
If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old...
I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.
I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.
Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth--an icy, windswept rat maze where kids waste...
For these women, Hamas’s view of women was laughable. And since they couldn’t hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were deaf to the appeal they held for their students.
Every Jew, and every converso, knew that the Inquisition was as much about filling the royal purse as purifying the Spanish church. For payment of a rapacious fine, most prisoners could walk—or hobble...
Eved hamalek. The servant of the king.
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
The dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.
One in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.
Adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.
You did not kill Silas Stone, or Zannah’s child. The war killed both of them. You must accept that. But I might have saved them. There was a man, Jesse, he handed me a gun, and I handed it back to him...
Women, it says, manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The
Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some
What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman’s reputation and sentences them to eighty lashes.
We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It’s another war, I think.
My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly. I used to wonder if it was so because the memory of Hea...